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Further apologies to THES subscribers whose copies are again delayed by postal workers' industrial action. The latest strike was due to take place yesterday.
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Alcohol researcher sees red
A leading alcohol researcher is demanding an explanation for an academic journal's refusal to publish a book review which it commissioned from him. John Duffy, director of Edinburgh University's...
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Colleges in two-tier clearing
Universities are developing a two-tier system of degree programmes in an effort to mop up applicants to over-subscribed courses during clearing. About 10,000 new or amended courses are on offer...
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Chat chunks aid the art of conversation
Sheila Grant has never been able to speak but last month she addressed hundreds of delegates at a Canadian conference using a new speech aid developed in Dundee. Ms Grant, who has cerebral palsy and...
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Design for the computer age
Lord Skidelsky, in the last paragraph of his "Dear Ron" letter (THES, August 9), demonstrates typical misconceptions about students' finances, and indeed about the makeup of the student body,...
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Best to be sheepish
During a visit to Morocco friends there told me a bitter-sweet joke: "As far as monarchies go", they related, "better to be Moroccan sheep than British cows!" From the vantage point of King Hassan II...
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Proof of the eating is in UEA's pudding
The University of East Anglia is proposing to become the United Kingdom's premier centre for food research, writes Kam Patel. The bid has been spurred by the Government's Prior Options review which...
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Westminster tops debt league
Students could incur vastly higher levels of debt depending on the university they attended, according to a new survey. Figures produced as part of the 1997 PUSH (formerly the Polytechnics and...
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Right said Fred
Alumnus to be proud of No 63 has received more praise for his personal integrity and honesty over the past few days - albeit in distinctly Mark Antony style - than most people do in a lifetime. Fred...
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Eternal students face mortality
Hamburg. Germany's notorious eternal students, in extreme cases enrolled at university for up to 20 years, could face expensive bills for study fees in future if politicians in the state of Baden-...
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Design for the computer age
It is obviously the silly season! Two sentences by Lord Beloff about media studies (Elite and proud of it, THES, August 9) and we are subjected to discussions about the state of the students' bowels...
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Grief is carved in stone
Sandra Gilbert discovered the anguish behind the bland term 'medical malpractice' when her husband died after a routine operation. But grief, she found, could be both muse and stone companion....
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College launches 'bully' probe
Governors at one of England's fastest-growing further education colleges are to conduct an independent survey into the running of the college following allegations of bullying. A study by lecturers'...
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Green killer
(Photograph) - Green killer: Philip Howse, joint head of the centre for bio-electrostatics at Southampton University, shows off his environmentally-friendly cockroach trap, which uses an...
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Engineer conversion courses are a fillip
Conversion courses developed to address the perennial worry of recruitment to engineering degrees have eased the problem, says a report from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The one-...